? ? ? ? I had heard about some of these things before, but not all of them. Jim knowed all kinds of signs. He said he knowed most everything. I said it looked to me like all the signs was about bad luck, and so I asked him if there warn't any goodluck signs. He says:
? ? ? ? "Mighty few- an' dey ain' no use to a body. What you want to know when good luck's a-comin' for? want to keep it off?" And he said: "Ef you's got hairy arms en a hairy breas', it's a sign dat you's agwyne to be rich. Well, dey's some use in a sign like dat, 'kase it's so fur ahead. You see, maybe you's got to be po' a long time fust, en so you might git discourage' en kill yo'sef 'f you didn'know by de sign dat you gwyne be rich bymeby."
? ? ? ? "Have you got hairy arms and a hairy breast, Jim?"
? ? ? ? "What's de use to ax dat question? don' see I has?"
? ? ? ? "Well, are you rich?"
? ? ? ? "No, but I ben rich wunst, and gwyne to be rich agin. Wunst I had foteen dollars, but I tuck to specalat'n', en got busted out."
? ? ? ? "What did you speculate in, Jim?"
? ? ? ? "Well, fust I tackled stock.
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